The Truth About Kenneth Lay's Death

The Truth About Kenneth Lay

As regular readers of my MySpace blog know, I am not a big fan of conspiracy theories. Nonetheless, even I get suspicious when a series of "coincidences" are just too convenient. Take the case of the "death" of Kenneth Lay.

Don't you find it a little odd that on the day the space shuttle Discovery finally launches the Lay family announces that he has "passed away?" An occurrence that, if true, would save the family from financial ruin?

(Lay's Death Complicates Efforts to Seize Assets
By SIMON ROMERO
In yet another bizarre twist to the Enron saga, the sudden death of Kenneth L. Lay may have spared his survivors financial ruin. http://www.nytimes.com/)

And add in the fact that, as well reported in numerous blogs today, Vice President Cheney has invested somewhere between 10 - 25 million dollars in European bonds. (An aside: how can he not know whether it is 10 or 25 million? I mean, we aren't talking pocket change even for the rich!) You may ask: what does that have to do with anything? Well, read on: what is Discovery's mission? To test shuttle-inspection techniques, deliver supplies to the international space station and drop off European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter for a six-month stay.

Hmmm. "Thomas Reiter" eh. Why wouldn't NASA release a photo "Reiter?" Because it wasn't him on the shuttle!

Here is what I think happened. Lay was about to be sentenced to what would, in practical terms, be a life sentence in prison. Sources inside the Justice Department said Lay was about to offer up Cheney in return for home detention. Cheney got wind of this and, of course, needed to get Lay out of the way. Cheney tried to get Lay to go hunting with him, but Lay was too smart for that. His fall back position: fake Lay's death.

The millions Cheney supposedly invested in European bonds went to Thomas Reiter and his family as hush money. They are now living in an undisclosed villa in the south of France.
Lay and his family went along with it because it is the only way to keep the family fortune from being seized by the Feds. And Lay decided he would prefer life aboard the international space station to being locked in a cell with Bubba and his friends in the event his attempted plea deal failed.

So there you have it. The truth about the "death" of Kenneth Lay. You read it here first.